“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.” - Paul Klee Fish Magic, 1925 oil & watercolor cloth/canvas on board

“But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.” ― Sonya Sones Gerhard Richter Self portrait, 1996 Oil on canvas

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark” ~ Rabindranath Tagore Laura Makabresku Photograph ‘The tale of a soul's night prayer, longing to bring comfort to the hearts of those suffering’

I nearly forgot the Daily Rothno!! The Daily Rothno is a false window in a house In Cambridge

“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” ― Lone Alaskan Gypsy Saul Leiter

@davidwilloughby.bsky.social Look at these!! Is this all because of Shrove Tuesday?

“It takes talent to photograph things that people want to look at but it is more difficult to photograph things that people want to ignore" ~ Shan Yonamine Don McCullin Turkish woman and her son, learning of the death of her husband killed by Greek militia, Gaziveren, Cyprus 1964

“Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again” ~ Joan Didion Nathan Walsh ‘Delmonico’s’ Oil on canvas

Don McCullin Local Boys in Bradford, 1972 “I have a philosophy in photography. The day I think I have arrived in photography, that is the day when I have lost as a person. You must never arrive as a human being. You must constantly be journeying.”

@timothyjamescat.bsky.social Thank you for the retweet and interest. Sometimes it feels like I’m screaming into the void on here…you also post really wonderful stuff ⭐️🙂

“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refurbished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.” – from the song Garbage by Pete Seeger Fabienne Meyer Born Into Waste 2024 Charcoal on paper

“Never ever mistake her silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stills before the onset of a hurricane.” ~ Nikita Gill Marcos Rey Grey Coat oil on canvas

John Keane FEAR, 2013 Oil on Linen Keane was reading of the Stalinist terror of 1930’s and found haunting & terrifying mug shots taken by the NKVD secret police. The idea of a society that aspires to some idea of Utopia, yet is dominated even at the highest levels by fear rings true today.

We got back to the car after a walk in freezing rain one night. And had to wait a while to clear the car windows. #BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #Photography #PhonePhotoraphy #FreezingRain #Freezing #Ice #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln Anastasia Samoylova ‘Gun Ring’, New York (2024) Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade

We need flowers for the same reason we need poems, paintings or songs - because what we can feel will always be vaster and more complex than what we can name. Words will always break under the weight of the immensities we task them with carrying... ~ M Popova MARC QUINN Garden, 2000 Oil on canvas

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept” ~Ansel Adams Gerhard Richter (Man on the Telephone), 1965 oil on canvas

“And the forest perfume — trees and earth — it’s like incense in a shrine. You fall into a state of… prayer.” ~ Keiichi Sigsawa An Jung-hwan Silent Woods No.72 Oil on canvas

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal Michael Carson, "Just Think of It", 2025 OIl on canvas

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal Michael Carson, "Just Think of It", 2025 OIl on canvas

'Across Fields' Mixed media on Paper Private Collection

‘If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.' ~ Nikola Tesla Gerhard Richter Woman Descending the Staircase 1965 Oil on canvas

“We, like lace, make up the very fabric of society, the tapestry of togetherness that consists of holes, but also of threads that tie us together until the end of time.” ~ Kayla Severson Alexander Volkov Room for Two Oil on Canvas

“Stones remind me how far I have come--and how much weight I can carry without being dragged under. I keep them in my pockets to retain simple wonder that the earth can yield, if only I'm prepared to stop and sift through it with my fingers” Katherine May Lara Restelli Orange Agates Oil on canvas

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“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.” ~Gerard Way GREGORYTHIELKER Differential' 2024 oil on linen

"I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea." - Franz Kafka Gregory Thielker Vortex 2009 Oil on canvas

“A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life” ~Virginia Woolf FRED HERZOG Mom and Son, Halifax 1969

Why are nearly all of my images processed? Well, I´m obviously interested in the process as such.And I´m always curious where it´ll lead me to.In most cases, I have only a vague idea of ​​what the result will look like. #contemporary #photography #tree #foggy #winter #scape

Bowie ~ always the soundtrack to my life 🖤 #BowieForever Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz

Our last holiday before the pandemic. Venice. Canal Grande.

“I have led a toothless life. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre Paul Cadden, Of Urban Artifacts, 2024 Graphite and Charcoal on paper

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. ~ Langston Hughes Andrea Kowch Thaw (2024) acrylic on canvas

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further l am rolled the more I gain." -Susan B. Anthony, 1896 John Philip Falter (American, 1910–1982) ”Snowy Ambush", 1959 Oil on Paperboard laid down on Board

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. ~ Langston Hughes Andrea Kowch Thaw (2024) acrylic on canvas

All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold. William Carlos Williams.

I rarely go into this explosive full color mode, but in this case...why bother? #contemporary #photography #multipleexposure #dunes #scape #sanktpeterording #northsea

In the garden a year ago today. January 5 2025.

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further l am rolled the more I gain." -Susan B. Anthony, 1896 John Philip Falter (American, 1910–1982) ”Snowy Ambush", 1959 Oil on Paperboard laid down on Board

"Winter dunes II" from the ongoing "DUNES" series... #contemporary #photography #multipleexposure #dunes #scape #sanktpeterording #northsea

“No man can roam or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of awareness and his discipline in expression, is perhaps more understanding of its moods and spirit than others are.” Lawren Harris Winter Sunrise ,1918 Oil On Canvas

Choir! Choir! Choir! Is one of coolest things in Toronto….I’d have loved to have been in this crowd….we need to hear this more than ever ❤️ youtu.be/y6Wz3i_BYUc?...

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J. B. Priestley John Kasyn "At the Break of Dawn, Sackville St, Toronto“ Oil on wood panel

#contemporary #photography #multipleexposure #woodland

Richard again….brilliant

Richard does it again…spectacularly

“Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.” -Prof. Samuel P. Huntington Rod Penner Simple Simons-Eagle Lake, TX Acrylic on canvas

How I’m walking out of 2025

It was a hard night…. Bruce Gilden Sauced Up Santa - New York (1968)

How I’m showing up to the Bluesky Xmas party